From the Rare Books Collection. This antiphonal manuscript, circa 16th century, is believed to be of Spanish origin. An antiphoner is a Catholic liturgical book containing antiphons and responsories for the Daily Office, the set of eight daily...

Transcribed copy of a report by the General Legislative Committee of Mississippi based on findings from an investigation of the occupation of the University of Mississippi in 1962 by the United States Department of Justice. Action was taken in...

Abstract of Drafts of Members of the C. S. House of Representatives, paid by E. C. Elmore, Treasurer C. S. during, the recess of Congress, after April 18th, 1863, under authority of Act of April 16th, 1862.

From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection. An address to SNCC staff members and/or civil rights workers and a list of approximately 200 questions about Mississippi history and government. The questions are designed for use as part of the...

From the Ben-Ami (Rabbi David Z.) Papers. This report by the Mississippi Advisory Committee to the United States Commission on Civil Rights describes the committee's procedures and lists its members, but it focuses mainly on the allegations of...

From the University Photographs Collection. A photograph of Alma Hickman, one of the first faculty members at the University of Southern Mississippi (then Mississippi Normal College) and an instructor of English.

Photograph of 5 unidentified members of the Alpha Sigma Alpha sorority sit on a bench. The caption reads, "Alpha Sigs Waiting for Men." This photo is featured in the 1949 Southerner yearbook on page 156.

From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; Appendix C explains the history and platform of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP), lists the executive committee members, and sets out a plan for the Congressional challenge. ...

A collection of interviews with African-Americans of the Mississippi Gulf Coast, circa twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, who knew Colonel John Robinson, an African-American pilot who was tapped by Ethiopian Emperor Haile Sellassie in the...

From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of Rabbi Arthur J. Lelyveld leaving Methodist Hospital in Hattiesburg, Mississippi in a wheelchair on July 11, 1964, upon being released. Rabbi...

Photograph of President Aubrey Lucas with members of the original class of Mississippi Normal College at the university's 75th anniversary celebration. From left: Emily Cook Bickerstaff (daughter of President Joseph A. Cook), Mollie Graham...

Photograph of Dr. Lucas with members of the University Activities Council. Photo taken in the Union lobby under a banner with the words: "Goodbye Dr. Lucas...we will miss you!" Also found in the 1997 Southerner yearbook on page 201.

From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of a Caucasian male volunteer and local African-American residents singing, probably following the Free Southern Theater's performance of Martin...